Midwest League 2000

Beloit Snappers

Season Summary

• Second Half: 30-38, .441, 5th place, 9.0 behind
• First Half: 41-26, .612, 1st place, 3.5 ahead
• Pitching: 71-64, 3.71, 48 saves, 966 strikeouts
• Hitting: .253, 594 runs, 71 HR, 126 steals (69% success)
• Errors: 159 (1.18 per game)
• April: 14-7 (.667)
• May: 16-12 (.571)
• June: 14-13 (.519)
• July: 15-12 (.556)
• August: 9-19 (.321)
• September: 3-1 (.750)

Pre-Season Profile

Manager

This is Don Money's third season as a professional manager, all of them at Beloit. Don's teams don't steal bases, but he likes to have players bunt.

First Round Draft Selection

• J.M Gold (1998; 13th selection)

Team Age Information

• Average Team Age: 22.2
• Pitchers: 22.4
• Hitters: 22.0

• Oldest Player on the Team: Fontella Jones (born 5/25/75)
• Youngest Player on the Team: Christian Guerrero (born 4/12/81)

The average player in the Midwest League is 21.6 years old. Average ages were calculated from the opening day roster; age as of July 1, 2000.

This website has more information about team ages.

Where they played last season

This is a brief portrait of how the team was put together. These summaries are based on the team's opening day roster and will not be revised to reflect roster changes.

This year's Snappers are largely built around last year's Beloit and Helena teams, with a contribution from Ogden. The Helena team was quite good.

Team     League          W/L    Place    Hitters Pitchers
                               (Teams)
Stockton California (A+) 57/83   9(10)      0       0
Beloit   Midwest (A)     59/80  14(14)      5       5
Helena   Pioneer (R+)    47/28   2(8)       6       6
Ogden    Pioneer (R+)    26/50   8(8)       4       3

There was very little player movement in the Brewers organization last summer, so most of the new Snappers spent last summer with one team. Two members of the team were with other organizations in 1999; one played briefly in Triple-A ball.